Emotional intelligence and self-concept among prospective teachers

The teacher's behaviour not only as a person but also as a teacher is predominantly controlled by his emotional behaviour, which in turn depends upon the degree of emotional intelligence possessed by him. In the modern world we need not just competent teachers, but teachers, who can question own actions and who are able to envisage new forms of professionalism. In this context the researcher has conducted a study of emotional intelligence and self-concept of prospective teachers. The main objective of the study was to see the relation between emotional intelligence and self-concept of would be teachers. Descriptive survey method was used to solve the purpose. A random sample of 120 prospective teachers from education colleges of Rohtak city was taken. The methodology includes central tendency, ‘t’ test and Pearson product moment correlation method to know the nature of data. The results of the study show that there is a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and self-concept of prospective teachers. It has also been noticed that there is a significant difference between self-concept of male and female prospective teacher.